Abused: Jennifer Lopez opens up about her toxic relationships

Jennifer Lopez recently dropped her new album "This Is Me... Now," and during its run-up, the singer vowed to be more honest and vulnerable than ever before.

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Her new album, 'This Is Me… Now: A Love Story' was 22 years in the making. Her self-funded ninth album and accompanying documentary and videos tell the story about her relationships, including to Ben Affleck.

For example, in the video for the song 'Rebound,' she and her ficcional partner are depicted in a violent relationship. “Being thrown around and manhandled like that is not fun,” she says.

While it's unclear who she was referring to, many on social media speculate it might be Marc Anthony, with whom the artist shares two children, but no names have been specifically mentioned.

The video for 'Rebound' endswhen a man bringing a glass house down on her. “The idea of the glass house was about how we get into these toxic relationships,” she told Variety. “You have trauma from your past. You have these patterns you haven’t figured out yet.

An"d you get into these relationships where you compromise yourself in ways that you never thought you would. Or you allow people to treat you in ways that you never thought you would... And that certainly has happened to me.”

Let's remember that JLo has a lengthy love history, including three ex-husbands: Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, and Marc Anthony. And currently, she is married to her previous ex Ben Affleck.

The Bronx Diva also premiered a documentary accompanying her new album titled "The Greatest Love Story Never Told," available on Amazon Prime, where she opens up about her past relationships.

“You have to hit rock bottom where you’re in situations so uncomfortable and so painful that you finally go, ‘I don’t want this anymore,’” she said in the lyrics of Rebound.

In her film, J-Lo reflects on a time when a therapist asked her how she would handle a situation of abuse if it were happening to her daughter, Emme.

“It was so clear. I’d tell her get out of here and never look back, but for me, it was so clouded and complicated. It was like looking through fog.”

“I was never in a relationship where I got beat up, thank God. But I’ve definitely been manhandled and a couple of other unsavoury things. Rough. Disrespectful," she adds.

In the documentary, JLo opens up about her relationship with Affleck, whom she married in 2022 after rekindling their romance after nearly 20 years of being apart.

She explained that they were able to come back together because, although they are different people now, at their core they remained unchanged and still loved each other. She said it was great to "rediscover each other."

“Our relationship crumbled under the weight of the pressure,” Lopez told Variety about why they Jennifer broke up in 2003. “We lost a sense of ourselves, and we needed to separate because we didn’t know how to survive it. I had to figure myself out, and he had to figure himself out.”

"I've learned the hard way not all love stories have a happy ending," she says in the film, which includes her friends holding an intervention for her for "maybe" being a love addict.

This whole project, described as an ode to love and to herself, was financed by J-Lo herself. She invested $20 million to tell her story.

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